A fight between soldiers and ropemakers on Friday, March 2, 1770 ignited a series of confrontations that led to the Boston Massacre the following Monday. Crispus Attucks, a mulatto sailor ...

Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution, but 250 years later, it’s still difficult to untangle fact from myth. What would soon be known as the Boston Massacre ...

And so as Crispus was leading the charge, he is the first to die in the Boston Massacre, and that became the first battle of ...